i have an 8G sandisk USB drive. it is detected by the kernel correctly and i can mount/unmount by hand or by manuall invoking the device notifier applet in the systray. what does not work (what has not worked in ages) is the automatic mounting of this drive. i have configured the device notifier to mount all removable devices at boht login and at insertion time. but it *never* works. if i mount the drive manual via the device notifier

i did the solid-hardware query, found the udi, and then did the solid-hardware mount command without any problems.

i'm using KDE v4.5.4 on a 64-bit FC14 instance.

/mark

it would be helpful to know what component detects the insertion of a new drive (hal? udev?) and how that component notifies the device notifier (dbus?).

anyone know?

/mark

Please create new topics for seperate issues, I've split the thread.

What is used to detect new devices depends on your KDE version. Prior to KDE 4.6, HAL is used. With 4.6, UDev and UDisks are used. They use different methods of signaling applications that a new device has been connected.

What you have encountered with the Device Automounter is probably a bug, but not in the Device Notifier, as they are seperate components. Please file a bug at bugs.kde.org.

Arch and KDE 4.9.0 same problem, still exists. Any newly attached media is not automounted unless you mark it in available medias list nevertheless automount options are set.

I believe this may be the intended behaviour of the auto mounter, only mounting the devices it has been configured to mount.